Sentence examples for of Irish extraction from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Cromwell's statue still stands outside the Houses of Parliament in London, no doubt enraging every passerby of Irish extraction.

Her mother, of Irish extraction and from eastern Ontario, was quite different; genteel, socially ambitious but oblivious to the subtle, tyrannical shadings of class and expectation in a town where the Laidlaws were felt to hail from the wrong side of the tracks.

Mr. Dodd, who is of Irish extraction, wore a green tie in honor of St. Patrick's Day, while Mr. Lieberman sported bright green socks, and a tie with shamrocks.

The son of a Dubrovnik-born father and a mother of Irish extraction, Radmilovic was raised in the Tiger Bay area of Cardiff, where his father was landlord at the Glastonbury Arms in Bute Street.

Born in London, she was the elder of two daughters – Marian Diamond, her sister, is an actor – of a Polish Jewish father, George Diamond, and his wife, of Irish extraction, Rosemary (nee Reed), who lived in Mayfair.

No, The Gathering 2013 is a year-long cultural celebration – or, if you prefer, "Ireland's greatest-ever tourism initiative" – intended to inspire people of Irish extraction to visit the homeland.

Just as the use of a garrote would have suggested someone of Mediterranean extraction, the bomb-knife combination struck him as Eastern European.

At least Strange's traditional servile sidekick, Wong, is due to be played by the brilliant British character actor Benedict Wong, who is of Hong Kong-Chinese extraction.

Natasha's mother was Rachel Rayy) Litvin, an actress of Baltic extraction, who was a rising star at the Old Vic during the First World War.

It was horribly shocking earlier this year when three young people of Middle Eastern extraction were shot dead in a car park about 500m from the council flat where I once lived with my family.

For a decade, Sattouf was the only cartoonist of Middle Eastern extraction at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where he drew an acid series on Parisian street life, "The Secret Life of Youth".